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Live Presentation

Also upcoming: Fall 2025

Adina Davidson, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst

What Myths Teach Us About Parenting

October 28, 2025

(Time and details TBA)

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Recent past GCFJ events:

GCFJ Film Study

Marion Woodman

'Dancing in the Flames'

(May, 2025)

Powerful and Insightful. "Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames" explores the life of renowned Jungian Analyst and author, Marion Woodman. Celebrated for her work on feminine psychology and addiction, her vital words and wisdom hold a key to understanding the world's current crisis. With honesty and trademark wit, Woodman explores the mysteries of the soul's journey and reveals series of psychological "deaths' and 'rebirths" that have made her who she is today. From her revelatory experiences in India, to surviving cancer, Marion's unique journey sheds light on a planet in the midst of a "shedding of its outworn skin.'[ Featuring a stunning animation by academy  Award winning artist, Faith Hubley, and with insight from esteemed author and mystic, Andrew Harvey, Marion weaves her inner and outer lives together and transmits a core truth of what it is to be human.

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Live Presentation 

Jungian Theory in Art Therapy and Image

“An artist’s job is to capture the unseen” – Nick Bantock

(April, 2025)

Maggi Colwell, Art Therapist, Analyst in Training

Jungian Art Therapy Experiential Workshop

Maggi Colwell is an art therapist in private practice in Columbus Ohio. They provide art therapy, sand play, and dream work to adult individuals for depth and dreamwork. They specialize in treating C-PTSD and traumatic grief for middle-aged Jungian Theory in Art Therapy and Image “An artist’s job is to capture the unseen” – Nick Bantock No Mud No Lotus by Maggi Colwell women. Maggi graduated from Florida State University in 2018 with a master’s degree in art therapy. They studied dream work and archetypes at the Assisi Institute between 2014 and 2021. They are currently a training candidate at the CG Jung Institute Zurich.

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GCFJ Film Study

The God Image: Antiquity to Jung

(September, 2024)

Lecture by Lionel Corbett, film provided by Jung Society of Washington, with  permission.*                     

Corbett conveys Jung’s teaching that a new God-image is emerging alongside our  traditional images of the divine. The Self, an innate God-image, exists in the psyche, and  allows a personal connection to the sacred. Images of the Self have particular qualities,  e.g., mysterious, fascinating, awesome, dreadful, and uncanny; they point to wholeness  and completion. Not only do Jung’s ideas bypass difficulties in traditional teachings  (e.g., how a God of Absolute Goodness can be reconciled with evil and suffering in the  world), but personal numinous experience is transformative. 

Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in  medicine and psychiatry in England  and as a Jungian Analyst at the  C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.  He teaches at Pacifica Graduate  Institute and is author of many  books and papers. Primary  interests: religious function of the  psyche, psychotherapy as spiritual  practice, and Jung in contemporary  psychoanalytic thought.

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Live Presentation

Bridge to the Unconscious: Dreamwork for

Therapeutic and Personal Growth 

(October, 2024)

with  Arlo Compaan, PH.D., Jungian Analyst 

Jung believed that attending to dreams was one of the better ways to expand consciousness and especially  useful for the discovery of shadow material. Dreams are bridges between our personal consciousness and the  unconscious. After a brief overview of the Jungian understanding of psyche--the dynamics of mental, emotional,  and spiritual life --we will consider the soul’s search for meaning, the archetypal push toward wholeness, and  the ego’s preferences for stability, consistency, and order. Then we will focus on the dreams that have us in the  night and how to make meaning out of our experience of them. This is often a challenge because dreams speak in  symbols, images, and pictures.  

We will explore ways to: 

• Move the symbolic image into conscious meaning  
• Channel the archetypal energy into conscious life, and  
• Embody the emotion of the images 

In this way, dreams can bring about a transformation of consciousness. We will also consider 3 types  of dreams, whether the dream speaks subjectively and/or objectively, and how the dream may illuminate the  progress or difficulties in the therapy relationship (the transference and countertransference). As we do this, we  will engage some small group work to come alive! 

  

Arlo Compaan, Ph.D., is a Jungian  psychoanalyst and a licensed clinical  psychologist. He is a diplomate member  of the International Association for  Analytical Psychology, a member  of the American Psychological  Association, a former fellow in the  American Association of Pastoral  Counselors and a former clinical  member and approved supervisor in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists at Claremont, CA. From 2013 to 2017 he was the Director of training for the Analyst Training Program at the C. G.  Jung Institute of Chicago, where he also served as a co-director for  the Jungian Psychotherapy and Jungian Studies Programs. His clinical  interest is in the treatment of trauma and the dynamics of shame and  shamelessness. He has presented papers on this topic in the US and  internationally. He maintains a limited, virtual clinical practice of  analysis and supervision from his home in Frankfort, Il. 

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GCFJ Film Study

Dream Tending

with Stephen Aizenstat

film by Russ Spencer

(April, 2024)

EVERY ONE OF US DREAMS…EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

Stephen Aizenstat's groundbreaking Dream Tending DVD is an invaluable resource. Dr. Aizenstat's innovative and deeply humanistic approach takes viewers deep into the mysteries their own dream life, revealing a vast untapped source of meaning, tenderness, and understanding. This documentary-style film is enhanced by rare on-camera interviews with Robert Johnson, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and Michael Meade. In addition, it features a wealth of rich, mythic images that illuminate Dr. Aizenstat's compelling narrative. It is a film filled with ideas, nuance, and valuable information -- all of which become revealed more fully with repeated viewing.

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